Refrigerator having dispenser

Abstract

A refrigerator having a dispenser for supplying selected supply objects such as water, ice, and the like, including: a dispenser body; a button unit formed on the dispenser body and selecting types of supply objects; and a supply object display unit for displaying differently according to types of supply objects selected via the button unit. A display lamp unit includes a water supply lamp, an ice cube supply lamp and a crushed ice supply lamp to correspond to a water supply button, an ice cube supply button and a crushed ice supply button of the button unit, and the water supply lamp, the ice cube supply lamp and the crushed ice supply lamp implement different colors, whereby different colors may be implemented at the display lamp unit according to types of supply objects selected via the button unit.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a refrigerator and, more particularly, a refrigerator having a dispenser allowing ice cubes stored in a refrigerating chamber from being drawn out of the refrigerator without opening a door of the refrigerator.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In general, a refrigerator is a device for keeping food items at storage at a low temperature, in which food items are frozen or refrigerated according to their states.[0003]Cold air supplied to the interior of the refrigerator is generated according to a heat exchange operation of a refrigerant, and continuously supplied into the interior refrigerator while repeatedly performing a cycle of compression-condensation-expansion-evaporation, and the supplied cold air is evenly transmitted into the interior of the refrigerator by convection current to keep food items at storage at a desired temperature within the refrigerator.[0004]Refrigerators are being increased in size and becoming multi-functional as the...

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Benefits of technology

[0022]The refrigerator according to the embodiments of the present invention has the following advantages.

[0023]A display lamp unit includes a water supply lamp, an ice cube supply lamp and a crushed ice supply lamp to correspond to a water supply button, an ice cube supply button and a crushed ice supply button of the button unit, and the water supply lamp, the ice cube supply lamp and the crushed ice supply lamp implement different colors, whereby different colors may be implemented at the display lamp unit according to types of supply objects selected via the button unit.

[0024]Because a single display lamp implement different colors to correspond to the water supply lamp, the ice cube supply lamp and the crushed ice supply lamp, different colors may be implemented at the display lamp unit according to types of supply objects selected via the button unit. Thus, recognition of selected supply objects can be enhanced and the configuration of the supply object display unit can be simplified.

[0025]Also, because the display device corresponds to the types of supply items selected via the button unit and a corresponding icon among a plurality of icons each having a different color is turned on, the recognition of a selected supply object can be improved, and because there is no need to provide an additional lamp as the supply object display unit, the configuration of the dispenser can be simplified.

[0026]In addition, because the speaker generates sounds corresponding to the types of supply objects selected via the button unit, recognition of a selected supply object can be improved. In particular, the types of supply objects can be discriminated by sound for the convenience of the visually impaired.

Problems solved by technology

However, the related art refrigerator has a problem in that recognition with respect to the selected supply object is not good, so if an icon corresponding to the supply object selected by the user is not precisely checked, a supply object undesired by the user may be provided.

Thus, the user cannot discriminate the selected supply objects by sound, and this problem may cause a big inconvenience of visibly impaired and so on.

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